cost of setting up an ewaste plant

**msmoorad** · 07-31-2017, 07:17 AM

nah, i dont care either way
im VERY thick skinned

and i dont think he meant to insult me
just the way he is
speaks his mind

anyways, back to business
i found out that there are ewaste extracting & refining facilities in the country but they are small and located in the Johannesburg area
which is about 650kms away.

lets see what happens...

if it doesnt work out, life goes on
its not the end of the world

**Smf-retired-user-0043** · 07-31-2017, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by msmoorad

nah, i dont care either way
im VERY thick skinned

and i dont think he meant to insult me
just the way he is
speaks his mind

anyways, back to business
i found out that there are ewaste extracting & refining facilities in the country but they are small and located in the Johannesburg area
which is about 650kms away.

lets see what happens...

if it doesnt work out, life goes on
its not the end of the world

Might be worth the price of a plane ticket, first arrange fro a tour of a e-waste plant.

If they'll allow pictures take many, take noted and make sure your pocket recorder is on.

A fellow from Germany started up Exnor a company that specializes in e-waste and refining in Winkler Manitoba, some background on the community, it's hugely populated with Minnonights of yes German ethnicity. So right off the batt you know the company didn't land there by chance.

Dealing with people of a similar background and language paved the road for permits, Winnipeg a much larger city a stone through away, had our entrepreneur tried to establish his operation there would be still tied up in red tape.

Exner E-Waste Processing inc.

I think that Exner would be a good study, compute the total floor space, the receiving area, equipment used and placement. Not sure if Exner refines in house or sends the cons out, if I were you I would consider sending the concentrates out for refining done outside with a coper refinery this will give you a bit of leeway with your financiers. As it will give your money guys some outside accountability.

Your concentrates at the end of the final process will be about 95% copper the remainder precious metals and for this reason best to have a copper refinery do the refining, I believe there is a large copper refinery in Africa, A lot of catalytic converters are shipped from North America to one of the copper smelters in Africa, the converters are added to the smelt, the copper acts as a collector for the precious metals.

Back to the Exner plant, now that you have the square footage and layout time to do a spreadsheet get your ducks lined up, make a powerpoint presentation that will hammer your point. Make sure each investor has a copy.

Now for the important stuff, compute your start up costs then amortize your equipment, the building lease, employee wages and benefits, office supplies, vehicles ( purchase or lease ) waste disposel etc. then .go to kitco for historical graphs for copper, gold, silver, platinum, palladium etc. You'll be at the mercy od how volatile the markets have performed you'll need to establish a baseline.

Once your satisfied with the numbers you'll be able to give your investors an idea on what to expect for yearly return on their investment.

If at all possible find a retired business mentor to coach you Home

**msmoorad** · 07-31-2017, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by alloy2

Might be worth the price of a plane ticket, first arrange fro a tour of a e-waste plant.

If they'll allow pictures take many, take noted and make sure your pocket recorder is on.

A fellow from Germany started up Exnor a company that specializes in e-waste and refining in Winkler Manitoba, some background on the community, it's hugely populated with Minnonights of yes German ethnicity. So right off the batt you know the company didn't land there by chance.

Dealing with people of a similar background and language paved the road for permits, Winnipeg a much larger city a stone through away, had our entrepreneur tried to establish his operation there would be still tied up in red tape.

Exner E-Waste Processing inc.

I think that Exner would be a good study, compute the total floor space, the receiving area, equipment used and placement. Not sure if Exner refines in house or sends the cons out, if I were you I would consider sending the concentrates out for refining done outside with a coper refinery this will give you a bit of leeway with your financiers. As it will give your money guys some outside accountability.

Your concentrates at the end of the final process will be about 95% copper the remainder precious metals and for this reason best to have a copper refinery do the refining, I believe there is a large copper refinery in Africa, A lot of catalytic converters are shipped from North America to one of the copper smelters in Africa, the converters are added to the smelt, the copper acts as a collector for the precious metals.

Back to the Exner plant, now that you have the square footage and layout time to do a spreadsheet get your ducks lined up, make a powerpoint presentation that will hammer your point. Make sure each investor has a copy.

Now for the important stuff, compute your start up costs then amortize your equipment, the building lease, employee wages and benefits, office supplies, vehicles ( purchase or lease ) waste disposel etc. then .go to kitco for historical graphs for copper, gold, silver, platinum, palladium etc. You'll be at the mercy od how volatile the markets have performed you'll need to establish a baseline.

Once your satisfied with the numbers you'll be able to give your investors an idea on what to expect for yearly return on their investment.

If at all possible find a retired business mentor to coach you Home

the part in bold is EXACTLY what i was thinking about

just got a promising response from a govt owned corp today- the main guy in charge of recycling asked me to send in my CV/resume
these guys have HUGE budgets.

i had emailed him and quite a few senior ppl in local & natl govt a few days ago
introduced myself & explained that i have lots of ideas about recovering precious metals from ewaste but no way to act upon them.